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sometime

2 adjective
     
sometime2 [only before noun]
1 formal former:
Sir Richard Marsh, the sometime chairman of British Rail
2 American English used to say that someone does or has a particular job part of the time:
Grimm, a sometime delivery driver, lives with his elderly mother.
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